Wheel for vehicles.



No. 632,463. Patented Sept. 5, I899. H. A. HOUSE, IR.

WHEEL FOR VEHICLES.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1899.)

( No Model.)

WITNESSES.

A TTOHNE YS NITED STATES PATENT HENRY ALONZO HOUSE, JR, OF EAST COIVES,ISLE OF TIGHT, ENGLAND.

WHEEL FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,463, datedSeptember 5, 1899.

Application filed April 25, 1899.

To all whom, it Til/(by concern.

Be it known that I, HENRY ALONSO Housn, Jr., engineer, a citizen of theUnited States of America, residing at East Cowes, Isle of \Vight,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVheelsfor Yehicles, (for which I have applied for a patent in England, datedthe 23d day of September, A. D. 1898, No. 20,184,) and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

The improvements which form the subject of the present invention aremore especially applicable to motor-car wheels; but wheels constructedin accordance With this invention may also be used for other vehicles.

Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a wheel with india-rubber orother suitable resilient material interposed between the inner and outertires, as hereinafter more fully described. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectionson lines A A and B B, respectively, of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view ofFig. 1. Fig. 5 illustrates the shape of the india-rubber or otherresilient material before referred to, and Figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, andillustrate modifications in the tire portion of the wheel.

Similar letters of reference relate to like parts in each of the figuresof the drawings.

The outer circumference of the inner tire f may be surrounded withblocks of india-rubher or other like resilient material 71, (shown inthe drawings,) held in place by an outer metal tire form ed of separatetrough-like segments j, so shaped and fitted that they inclose theindia-rubber blocks '6, holding them more or less loosely to the innertire and allow the said blocks 2" to form a resilient cushion betweenthe inner and outer metal tires f and j. The outertire segmentsj and theindia-rubber blocks 2' are held more or less loosely in place by theinward]y-projecting lips or flanges m on the sides of the trough-likesegn1ents,which flanges or take under the edges of the inner ti ref, asshown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, or instead of the lips or flanges m studs orprojections may be formed on the inner surface of one side of each ofthe trough-like segments, as shown at n in Figs. 7 and 8, the other sideof Serial No. 714,396. (No model.)

such segment being provided with a lip or flange 'm, as shown in thesame figures.

In order to enable the segments j to be placed in position, their sidesmay be sprung or bent open sufficiently for the lips or flanges 'm topass the inner tirefand afterward sprung or bent inward again, asindicated at the right-hand side of Fig. 2, for example, or a gap may bemade in one portion of one side of the inner tire f, (see Figs. 1, 3,and 4,) so as to enable the lips or flanges m on one side of each of thesegmeutsj to pass into place. The seg mentsj may thus be threaded intoposition one after the other, and the before-mentioned gap may be filledup after the whole of the segments j are in position by a keeper-pieceo, bolted to a bracket 19, riveted to the inner tire f, or the lips orflanges of the segments j may in some cases project outwardly, as shownat q in Fig. 6, and the whole of them be kept in position by a flangedkeeper-ring r on each side of the wheel.

The adjacent edges of the circumferential portion of the trough-likesegmentsj may be so shaped by halving together, as shown at s in Fig. 1,for example, that the load on the wheel is transferred from one suchsegment to another in as continuous and regular a manner as possible.

The india-rubber or other resilient blocks 7; are so shaped as to allowthe same to be compressed, and also to prevent any rattle or jar of themetallic parts, whether the said blocks are under compression or not.Such a shape is indicated in Fig. 5, but same may be modified or varied,as desired.

Projections u, Figs. 5 and 6, are sometimes provided on the innersurfaces of each of the trough-like segments j, coincident with andentering more or less into the holes 25 in the india-rubber or otherresilient cushion t', in order to more or less preserve the relative positions of the segments around the circumference of the wheel, or insome cases stop-pieces 4: may be riveted to the inner tire f, as shownin Figs. 9 and 10, which are respectively seetional elevation andtransverse section of the tire portion of a wheel. These stop-pieces '0come between the trough -like segments j, which latter are furnishedwith lugs or ears to, carrying pins m, on which are threaded tubes orsleeves y, of india-rubber or other suitable material, which tubes orsleeves bear against the stop-pieces o and tend to neutralize any jar ornoise caused by the movement of the .segments j and also preserve therelative posections, and lugs or stops carried by the inner tire andholding said sections against longitudinal movement, substantially asdescribed.

3. In combination, the inner tire f, the outer sections havinginwardly-extending portions embracing the sides of said inner tire,resilient material interposed between said tire and sections, pinsconnecting said inwardly-extending portions, tubes or sleeves ofresilient material threaded on said pins and engaging the inner side ofthe tire f, and stops carried by the tire f projecting between adjacenttubes or sleeves, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY ALONZO HOUSE, JUNIOR.

IVitnesses:

HERBURT H. LYTLE, FREDERICK W. TOUSEY.

